15216 Quotes

#1. The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#2. Come with me and you shall be an empress with the moon for your throne and constellations to wear in your hair. Come

Roshani Chokshi

#3. The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#4. You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Conway Twitty

#5. Grandma being possessed by a murderous demon from hell makes perfect sense to me,

Meg Cabot

#6. Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Aldous Huxley

#7. The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

Rick Warren

#8. I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.

Lori Petty

#9. I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Tim Cook

#10. Jazz to me is a living music.

Dexter Gordon

#11. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Julian Baggini

#12. Strive for excellence, rather than perfection, and the audience may so enjoy your beautiful, expressive tone that they will readily forgive a few stray notes.

Ruth Bonetti

#13. If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

James Blake